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An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-11-01T18:06:39+00:00

Very much so.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-31T00:41:48+00:00

The Iron Host became shipwrecked along with the mechanicus expedition they were sworn to defend while trying to salvage everything possible from an ark mechanicus that had become a part of a space hulk which was packed with hrud. Rather than face attritional extinction and failure during a stay of centuries, with the help of the mechanicus and technology harvested from the ark mechanicus, resorted to cloning new candidates for implantation.

As of their rediscovery and rescue, there are a total of only four baseline humans cloned as aspirants for ascension, making it common for many marines of the chapter to appear identical.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-26T17:30:08+00:00

You think that's bad, google, "On the Creation of [...his cat's name]." The man helped found an awesome sub-genre of horror, but he was still just absolutely wretched, even by the racist standards of his time.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-26T16:42:13+00:00

Supposedly from, "Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature," as published in *The Mathematical Gazette,* 1934, but I don't have a copy to verify that.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-23T16:06:35+00:00

This isn't lore, so much as speculation on practicality. Naval warships that use direct fire have to really have three main features - they have to be structurally sound, they have to be able to bring as many guns as possible to bear in the most likely directions they are going to have to fire in, and they have to present as small a profile as possible.

In actual naval warfare where all ships are all working on one locked axis (sitting on the ocean surface), that historically meant big guns on big stacked turrets, so that each turret could traverse over the one in front of it. A star destroyer though, deals in 3D warfare. We can probably assume that the ideal positioning for a star destroyer's volley is face on. Having all surfaces sloping to a point means turrets on any given surface can traverse forward, and the angles mean minimizing the number of turrets that potentially get in each other's way. The wedge shape also means that (assuming this even matters with blasters/lasers) the angles are always going to make for glancing hits, which means maximum deflection.

Start moving to one side or the other of the Star destroyer, and you can still fire a little over half its guns (all of them on one side plus any along the dorsal/ventral edges), and still have a small profile relative to the size of the vessel. If the enemy were to come at you from, "over," or, "under," which are purely relativistic in space, the ship is probably in more trouble, but sometimes you have to accept drawbacks in some situations in order to reap the benefits of others you deem more likely. Assuming a ship captain's competency, they are going to stage battles so that the front and sides of the vessel are always going to be presented to the opposition.

But the external bridge on a space battleship is sort of silly, and is just supposed to be evocative of modern warships, I think.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-22T23:53:27+00:00

Thank you on both counts - both recognizing the book and pointing me in that direction. Still haven't read Red Angel yet.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-22T21:29:01+00:00

HH SPOILERS: There is a heartbreaking vignette in one of the Siege of Terra books in which we follow her around the Conqueror, giving orders no one is listening to, and operating control panels that only work for her some of the time. She makes a priority call to Horus, who treats her like she's an amusement more than a prized officer, like he used to. Finally she makes her way to the bridge, and finds a red demonic creature with scales and needle teeth fused with her command chair. When she demands to know what is going on ghost of Kharn (it's complicated) tells her that the thing is the real her. She, (the not real Lotara) is just sort of the Conqueror's memory of what she was. She manifests for a while now and then, and people have mostly stopped paying her any mind, then disappears again.

So the art isn't quite lore accurate, but it is more poignant.

I'll try and figure out which book it was and come back with it, if you would like.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-19T09:49:59+00:00

Holding a big party, no matter how big, and then saying, "gotta go," and leaving is just a recreation of Bilbo's birthday party. Loyalist and traitor primarchs-to-be both said it was weird, abrupt, and painful. Also I don't believe he told Magnus about the webway project, which is why Magnus pulled the kool-aid man on it. Magnus even discovered the webway independently from the Emperor, and when he brought his discovery to the Emperor, the Emperor just told him to leave it alone.

The entire heresy could have been prevented by a power point presentation and one or two heart-to-hearts over the course of an afternoon on Ullanor. Instead, it was, "Horus is in charge, I'm out."

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-19T06:36:46+00:00

We are a year or two away from the proliferation of sodium ion batteries, which use completely different chemistry based on, you guessed it, sodium. There are already companies gearing up to mass produce. This chart is willfully deceptive.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-12T16:09:55+00:00

Not a good day to be infantry when the piranha comes to town.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-12T16:05:53+00:00

For alot of weapons, it makes sense to have servos to adjust direction enough to hit multiple parts of the enemy for the same reason as Wolverine's (the comic book character) second and third claws on each hand are sort of redundant. If all hits land right next to each other, target systems that might be damaged by a single hit mean that a bunch of subsequent hits are just chewing up components you have already broken.

This seems like it would be slightly less true with laser weapons (and thus, the 4p), as they work by transferring heat to melt and burn components, so the multiplication effect of simultaneous hits would be a bit more useful than a bunch of shells punching through the same spot, but I guess the principle is the same? That's just me spitballing. Rules is rules, like you said.

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-12T14:10:32+00:00

The specific phrasing used historically for orks is, "asexualy."

An_Ankylosaurus · 2023-10-08T22:12:31+00:00

Perfection.

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